Reinsurance News

Relative benchmarking and predictive AI can reveal true outperformers in the Lloyd’s market, says IC...

Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR), an independent analytics and research firm founded by former leaders of Lloyd’s internal research and performance team, has released new findings showing how relative benchmarking, enhanced by predictive...

Posted: Sep 01, 2025

Relative benchmarking and predictive AI can reveal true outperformers in Lloyd’s market, says ICMR

Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR), an independent analytics and research firm founded by former leaders of Lloyd’s internal research and performance team, has released new findings showing how relative benchmarking, enhanced by predictive...

Posted: Sep 01, 2025

Northern Re launches structured reinsurance solutions portfolio

Northern Re, a reinsurance firm focused on long-tail casualty business, has announced the launch of its structured solutions product suite and enhanced whole account quota share capabilities. The products have been created to address complex ceden...

Posted: Sep 01, 2025

Starr appoints Hassan El Kaissi as SEO & Regional President, Middle East

Starr Insurance, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance, has announced the appointment of Hassan El Kaissi as Senior Executive Officer (SEO) & Regional President, Middle East. Based in Dubai, El Kaissi will oversee all lines...

Posted: Sep 01, 2025

Mun named Director, Client Management at Aon Reinsurance Malaysia

Lin Mun, an executive with over 21 years of extensive experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, has been appointed as Director, Client Management of Aon Reinsurance Malaysia. With a deep understanding of the market and client needs, Mu...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Healthy underwriting results & robust investment income support Asian reinsurers’ earnings: AM Best

Asian reinsurers are actively expanding to mature overseas markets to diversify their portfolios and improve cycle management, a move seen by credit rating agency AM Best as credit positive. According to a recent AM Best report, many reinsurers in...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

ACORD launches NGDS Object Model to streamline digital data exchange

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) Object Model, designed to streamline digital data exchange across the insurance industry. The NGDS Object...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers names Ferguson CEO of US Assure

Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers (RSUM), the underwriting management division of Ryan Specialty, has announced the appointment of Alan Ferguson as Chief Executive Officer of US Assure, effective September 1, 2025. Ferguson, who will continue t...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

kWh Analytics adds new $20m capacity layer to nat cat solution for renewable energy industry

kWh Analytics, a climate insurer and risk manager for renewable energy projects, through its licensed insurance entity, Solar Energy Insurance Services, Inc., has expanded its portfolio with a new Excess Natural Catastrophe coverage to protect the...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

NA P&C re/insurers post strong operating results despite catastrophes: Fitch

Fitch Ratings’ review of GAAP financial results for 41 North American (NA) re/insurers showed strong operating returns, strong underwriting results, and higher investment income in the first half of 2025, despite elevated catastrophe activity. Fit...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

China Re’s net profit rises 11.4% to RMB 6.6bn in H1’25

China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation (China Re) released its unaudited results for the first half of 2025, reporting a net profit of RMB 6,599 million, up 11.4% from RMB 5,922 million in the same period a year earlier. The Group achieved gross wr...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

AXA and WTW launch parametric programme to protect Caribbean’s second-largest coral reef

AXA COLPATRIA, AXA Climate, Fondo Acción, and WTW Alternative Risk Transfer, have jointly designed a parametric insurance programme to protect coral reefs in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. In this effort,...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Allianz Trade appoints Tetsushi Kitano as Country Manager for Thailand

Allianz Trade, a provider of trade credit insurance and part of the Allianz Group, has appointed company veteran, Tetsushi Kitano as Country Manager for Thailand, effective September 1st, 2025. The appointment aligns with Allianz Trade’s str...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Ledgebrook Re launches under the leadership of market veterans

Ledgebrook Inc., a technology-focused provider in the Excess and Surplus Lines insurance sector, has launched Ledgebrook Re, a boutique reinsurance brokerage and advisory firm dedicated to supporting the next generation of insurance innovators. Le...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance launches parametric weather insurance product

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, has announced the launch of its new parametric insurance product, “Weather Insurance Index”, a new offering designed to help insurers manage financial losse...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

S&P upgrades Ascot Group to BBB+ and assigns ‘A’ to Ascot Bermuda

S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Ascot Group Limited, a Bermuda-based specialty re/insurance company, raising its long-term issuer credit rating to BBB+ from BBB. At the same time, S&P assigned an A long-term financial strength rating to As...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

European ‘Big Four’ maintain property cat appetite in 2025: AM Best

The European “Big Four” reinsurers—Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re and SCOR—still have appetite for property catastrophe, despite market conditions beginning to show signs of softening, according to a recent AM Best report. The ratings agency not...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

HDI Global appoints Nikita Tikhonov as Head of Marine Global Risk

HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has announced the appointment of Nikita Tikhonov as its new Head of Marine Global Risk, effective 1st September, 2025. Based at HDI Global’s Hannover, Germany headquarters, Tikhonov will...

Posted: Aug 29, 2025

Swiss Re’s Urs Baertschi calls for stronger collaboration to manage rising nat cat losses

Urs Baertschi, CEO of Property & Casualty Reinsurance at Swiss Re, recently shared his perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the insurance industry in 2025. Reflecting on his personal aversion to roller coasters, Baertschi com...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Guy Carpenter names Goodman Chief Client & Growth Officer

Guy Carpenter, a Marsh McLennan business, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Goodman as Chief Client & Growth Officer, a newly created global role. Based in New York, Goodman will be reporting to Dean Klisura, President & CEO of Guy C...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Reinsurers’ catastrophe appetite slows in 2025 as pricing softens: S&P

Although reinsurers continue to expand their natural catastrophe business, the pace of growth has slowed from last year and is expected to remain subdued in 2026 as pricing conditions soften, according to a recent report by S&P Global Ratings....

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Record $121bn alternative capital signals further growth in ILS market: Aon

Aon’s latest report has revealed that alternative capital surged to a record $121 billion by June 30, 2025, as cedents increasingly turn to solutions beyond the traditional reinsurance market. H1 2025 saw the structuring of 56 catastrophe bonds wi...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

US cyber insurance market sees first decline in premiums since 2018, QualRisk reports

According to the 2025 US Cyber Insurance Monitor (UCIM) from the advisory firm QualRisk Cyber Insurance Center (QCC), the US cyber insurance market experienced its first reduction in reported premiums since the NAIC began collecting data in 2018....

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

McKenzie Intelligence Services and Eagleview partner to support cat response for insurance industry

McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a provider of geospatial intelligence, and Eagleview, a developer of advanced geospatial technology, have announced a collaboration to strengthen the insurance industry’s capabilities in responding to large-sc...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Accelerant’s net income soars 242% to $13.1m in Q2’25

Accelerant Holdings has reported a net income of $13.1 million for the second quarter of 2025, marking a 242.4% increase from a net loss of $9.2 million in the same period a year earlier. Total revenues for the quarter reached $219.1 million, up f...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025